422 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



the founding and developing of any popular variety of the animal 

 family. Breed we from the very best, our percentage of failures, 

 of misfits and of ordinary animals will be very large. The best 

 specimens of any breed are expensive — but none but the best are 

 worth while. Better far one real good mare than a barnyard full 

 of nondescripts. There was never a period when a common animal 

 brought anything but a loss to the man who bred him ; there never 

 was and never will be a time when a strictly choice article would 

 not bring a profit to its producer, credit to its variety and satisfac- 

 tion to its purchaser. Breed from the best to the best; never let 

 your name be associated with anything but the best — or leave the 

 enterprise alone. Make up your mind what you want, then find 

 out if the markets will assimilate that sort; figure out if the 

 young things will earn, at least in part, their keep-up to merchant- 



Panama, by Col. SUijlijii.-, (Th.); dam, by Ernest K. :: ;:;i;U. a son of Hamble- 

 tonian's Last by Hambletonian 10. A Missouri-bred champion heavy-weight saddle 

 horse at the National Horse Show, Newf York, and other eastern horse shows. Sold 

 by Lee Bros., Mexico, Mo. Owned and exliibited by Godfrey Preece, New York. 



able age; consider if you are by nature a "horse" man or a "cow" 

 man or a "sheep" man, and if you are the one, be careful how you 

 venture upon the other; for natural instinct and love for a certain 

 pursuit, or some special branch, spells success or failure according 

 to your attitude, mental and physical. 



Any man who just "raises horses," with no definite idea of 

 exactly what he is trying to do, is eligible for the cosy corner in 



